What Can Nintendo Do To Appeal To The West?

[teigaga]

Deeds said:

teigaga said:

1. Its the norm to make a loss when a console launches (as Nintendo did), the cost involed are huge. The fact Sony made a profit at all just shows how well the PS4 managed to do. 

2. 3DS is responsible for most of their profit and when we're talking about the necessity of 3rd party support we're discussing homeconsoles. Name 1 home console that has done V well without third party support?

1) Nintendo made more money than Sony's gaming division.

2) N64 and Wii. They both printed money like the Bank of Japan.

3) 3DS is responsible for most of Nintendo's profits? Any proof? What about all the money Mario Kart 8 printed?

1) Yes, I know and thats why I said comparing the profits of a newly launched system versus a system thats been out for a while is nonsensical. Launches are expensive and very little money if any is traditional made on hardware. Again refer back to the 3DS and Wii U's lauch.

2) Wii had a tons of third party support, a high selling system and third party support are always synonymous. Although I'm sure the 64 was profitable, how did you distinguish the revenue Nintendo made from that n64 versus the Gameboy which had much higher uptake.

3) 3DS Hardware sales >>> Wii U. 3DS profit margins >>>> Wii U. 3DS Software sales in 2014 >>> Wii U. Why would this be up for debate?

Wii U has had one big software hit this year (MK8) and then hardware which only started selling at a profit from early summer.